Re: [virt-tools-list] virt-install: Getting initrd 'injection' to work...

2010-10-22 Thread Martin Ellis
Two things I should have mentioned, to corroborate my patch: On 21 October 2010 23:02, Martin Ellis wrote: I had a look at the patch that introduced this feature [2], and noticed that it was using cpio -c when repacking the initrd. The -c option corresponds to the 'odc' format:

Re: [virt-tools-list] virt-install: Getting initrd 'injection' to work...

2010-10-22 Thread Cole Robinson
On 10/22/2010 05:39 AM, Martin Ellis wrote: Two things I should have mentioned, to corroborate my patch: On 21 October 2010 23:02, Martin Ellis wrote: I had a look at the patch that introduced this feature [2], and noticed that it was using cpio -c when repacking the initrd. The -c option

Re: [virt-tools-list] virt-install: Getting initrd 'injection' to work...

2010-10-22 Thread Martin Ellis
On 22 October 2010 14:14, Cole Robinson crobi...@redhat.com wrote: Thanks for the patch, I'll give it a spin. What distro are you testing with? Cool, thanks. I'm testing with an Ubuntu 10.04 host, installing a Debian 'Lenny' VM. Martin ___

Re: [virt-tools-list] virt-install: Getting initrd 'injection' to work...

2010-10-22 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:02:41PM +0100, Martin Ellis wrote: [...] Kickstart is the anaconda-equivalent of preseeding. I've been trying to use preseeding [1] to automate installations of Debian-based VMs. [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apb.html Another way to do this is